While rehabbing his shoulder injury in the minors Garcia came to the plate because pitchers bat in the Double-A Texas League, so naturally he was plunked in the elbow by a pitch. Derrick Goold of the St. Louis Post Dispatchreports that X-rays did not show a fracture, so he’s been diagnosed with a bruise for now.

As Garcia put it: “It’s really, really frustrating. I get out of one thing and something else happens.”

Before the hit by pitch Garcia had been slated to throw around 80 pitches, so if the elbow injury isn’t a major setback he could be relatively close to rejoining the Cardinals.